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Transformers: Dark of the Moon

“At least Megan Fox was useful.”

That was my Facebook status, which I posted as soon as I got out of the theater last Friday night. In a nutshell, Transformers: Dark of the Moon was a waste of PhP300 (I hate that I always have no choice but to watch in stereoscopic 3D because they have the best schedules) and wow…that was 2 hours 30 minutes of my life that I can never ever get back.

If I added about PhP300 more, I could have had a massage while sleeping and then enjoyed an eat-all-you-can buffet at Wensha Spa. It is not comfy to sleep in a movie house because you can’t recline the seats. And the amount of money we spent for this crap made me think thrice about walking out even when I was dying to.

With me wanting Megan Fox back, who isn’t actually the greatest actress there is, that only means one thing: the new girl’s existence was so banal that I started hating Michael Bay. Will actually avoid ALL Michael Bay movies from now on. Don’t get me wrong, I am a Third Wave feminist. I am all for the expression of female sexuality and I don’t care if you’re straight or queer. But she is just ridiculous. Sure, we want eye candy, but at least make her do something besides strut her assets and scream, for crying out loud! (I get that they want Megan Fox out, but at least bring her kick-ass character back even if they get a new actress.) You can actually remove the new girl from the movie and it wouldn’t have affected the story. At all.

Pure annoyance, really.

Hm. Wait. Now that I think about it, let’s just scrap all the human beings in the movie and concentrate on the robots, shall we? There’s already enough drama about Cybertron to begin with. We don’t need to add human dramatics to that. Also, why do the Decepticons have all the cool machinery when the Autobots sacrifice the good robots? Bring in the Dinobots, jeez!

Dementedchris

It was a mess of a film though I can't really complain since I downloaded a bootleg to see what's up with it. (and I had the power to go back and forth on scenes I wanted to skip or rewatch) Still, its a good closure to a trilogy, and good riddance too! Now I can concentrate on my DC movies. *dont fail me again, Man of Steel*

yeah, they can volt in with the Dinobots while Decepticons with the Zoids. 🙂

i heard that the girl was such a waste of talent fee. i haven't watched the movie yet but i am planning to watch it in my iphone only tonight, before going to bed.

the movie did indeed receive a flurry of comments and disgust:

1) it wasn't shoot in 3D camera, so the 3D of it is juts purely digital mastering

2) the girl that was supposed to fill in the Megan-Fox-void was such a waste of character

3) the robots especially the Decepticons look like robots from a Pinoy film Resiklo, they look like shards of junk metals Epoxy-ied together just to come up with a menacing looking villain(why do villains in the movies always look aweful, contrary of what they look in real life)

Haha, ako naman nakulangan sa robot-action. It's all human drama for me. The good thing about spending for it, I could actually bash it the way I did just now. Haha. Minsan lang ako mainis sa movie, and this movie just reached my quota of annoying ones.

Everything you heard is true. Haha! I usually like movies that critics lambast to death…but this movie is just really plain insulting. I'm on mega-rant mode, which…I'm not sure if I've done with my previous movie reviews. Maybe in Resiklo? Haha!

Jerome Asuncion

I do not want to add anything, in fact I am willing to shell out 300 bucks for any cinematic output that satisfies the standards of what a real film is, otherwise will erode the pseudo-magnificence of the movie by utilizing formalism (elements of cinema) , structuralism and other paradigms that will highlight and escalate the non-contributing essence of Michael Bay's thrash for exorbitant ebullience for cultural and aesthetic values. I'll just bring my ass to view Tree of Life and several entries in the Cinemalaya 2011.

it's been FULL HOUSE over the past week, so I hope I can bring my children to see it today. We already purchased the tickets last Thursday ensuring we got good seats to enjoy the movie. Looking fwd to see it today… Transformers Rock!

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